Schizophrenia News

Adding virtual reality-based cognitive behavioral therapy to regular treatment can help ease paranoid thoughts and anxiety in patients with psychotic disorders, according to findings published in The Lancet Psychiatry.

People with psychotic disorder demonstrated a developing course of cognitive impairment throughout their first 20 years of life, leading to verbal and nonverbal dysfunction; however, this course was not seen in other psychiatric disorders, according to findings published in JAMA Psychiatry.

The rate of all-cause mortality observed among adolescents and young adults after first diagnosis of psychotic disorder was about eight times higher than the rate observed among a matched control group of general outpatient service users, according to data published in JAMA Psychiatry.

A computer-based natural language processing analyses of speech transcripts predicted — with an 83% accuracy — young people at risk for developing later psychosis, researchers found.

Researchers have discovered the first high-resolution crystal structure of the dopamine 2 receptor, or DRD2, bound to risperidone, which will enable scientists to activate only this receptor thus potentially curbing common adverse effects and creating safer therapeutics, according to a press release.

Study findings showed that adolescents who use cannabis or tobacco are at increased risk for subsequent psychotic experiences; however, this association was greater among cannabis users.

Study findings showed that adolescents who use cannabis or tobacco are at increased risk for subsequent psychotic experiences; however, this association was greater among cannabis users.

As 2017 comes to an end, Healio Psychiatry put together a list of our most popular stories of the year.

Cannabidiol had beneficial effects as an adjunctive therapy in patients with schizophrenia, research findings suggest.

Enhanced social recovery therapy plus early intervention increased time spent in structured activity among patients with first-episode psychosis, indicating that social recovery therapy may help improve functional outcomes in these patients, according to findings published in The Lancet Psychiatry.